and then. poor people. into a busy highway. in the wrong way. on a serious condition. the week some a new president. ban on americans adopting russian children but it's public opinion . aimed at the flawed adoption system in the u.s. . constitution which sparked weeks of protests is officially. under investigation for allegedly plotting to

topple the president. still mourns the sandy hook victims. we examine why the president's weapons control. even more citizens. the tragedy at one of russia's busiest airports when a passenger plane overshot the runway while landing on saturday crashed through a fence into the side of a major highway. wrecking into three parts and killing four of the eight people on board all of them crew members the crash happened ten kilometers from the city this

is video taken by a motorist dashboard camera captured the moment of impact i. and for those on the highway at the time and lucky escape but an incident which clearly left them shocked you can even hear the drivers deep breathing as he tries to pull over following what we've just witnessed. several others who've been driving past stopped to help the crash survivors they were seen pollute crew members from the plane with them first aid until the emergency services of arrived among those who stopped a priest who read one of the victims who was thrown metres from the plane. while the crash that claimed the lives of four people on board the other four are still in a critical condition now investigators are trying to fathom why the two people there to work for a relatively new type of aircraft that should never previously been involved in

a crash overshot the runway. reports formanek of an airport jet was trying to land . the investigation is currently underway this is the sac and on the biggest approved of the plane that still remains very close to the highway and looks quite terrifying the other parts of the plane of the cabin that through right on the highway off through the crash and where the four two members died as well as the black boxes probably already been cleared over the night so far there are three main diversions why this tragedy happened just these versions are weather conditions pilot error and possible technical problems with the plane in particular there were reports that there might been something wrong with the plane's braking system that's why it couldn't stop while being on the runway so the investigation is currently underway out of eight crew members four survived but all in critical condition and according to the witnesses those drivers who were caught by this

tragedy in their own cars they said that the scene right after the crash looked very devastating and terrifying that those survivors on board of this plane were all covered in blood and they were in such a critical condition that people who rushed to how the survivors didn't even know how to approach what value with first aid asked they were afraid not to hurt them even more we can now listen to one of the witnesses what you got to say i saw one woman covered in blood it was the floor of the trend and christina she said that the plane overshot the runway but they weren't carrying any passages and that there is another surviving flight attendant there the rescue unit came very proud but the ambulance couldn't get through because of the traffic so we gave the injured flight attendant first aid to our best knowledge called her mother to tell her she was ok up to a woman blankets and clothing we could find and they even found a contact which hospital bill who rushed to how to survive us did that while parts

of the plane were still on fire and there was a real. the possible explosion this claimed to be over to all four is a passenger jet with the capacity to carry. and this particular plane belonged to a russian low cost or red wings. of course a small blessing or is that there were no passengers on board the plane which can carry more than two hundred that's amid the busy holiday season aviation safety expert david then and explained earlier why the jets was almost empty the clue is with the fact that this is a charter airline it does a lot of charter work and therefore it had a task a chartered toss to carry people out to the czech republic they didn't have a cost to bring bring them back until probably a later date meanwhile i suspect the airline needed its aircraft back at base to do

other work so i think you'll find out find that this was what in the trade is called up positioning flight it was positioning the empty aircraft back to its base on the runways long enough the weather wasn't particularly a problem there was some very light snow at the time but you know for anybody who operates in the moscow airport at this time of the year that shouldn't be a problem. of course it does reduce the and asian on the runway the braking efficiency of the airplane but the pilots of course have to and you know it's their job to make allowances and if braking action is not very good it when an aircraft goes over the end of the runway like this it's almost always because the aircraft for some reason landed too fast which would be a case of misjudgment unless there was a technical reason and we haven't heard any invention yet or that the true again a misjudgment issue landed too far down the runway and therefore couldn't stop by

the end of it. well more pictures and eyewitness accounts from the scene or on our website where you can also find out more about the plane itself that's at r.t. dot com. other news now from new year's day the adoption of russian children by u.s. citizens will no longer be possible after president putin signed the measure into law it's a tit for tat response to america's sanctions against russian officials which it sees as human rights violators because it has more on the diplomatic spat. you have to understand that the law the so-called dental magnitsky law actually deals primarily a with the employees in travel and financial strictures on the number of american officials and persons who have committed crimes against russian citizens and only part of the law actually bans the adoption of russian children by american citizens it has been in part inspired by the case of a russian toddler who was adopted by the american family in two thousand and nine

and died in their custody several months later after his father left him in a locked in a car in the us through heat for nine hours the russian lawmakers feel that the american more system does not provide adequate adequate protection for the russian kids and also does not punish those responsible for the deaths of russian kids for example do you have to lose father adoptive father walked away with a fine but you have to remember that russia is going to boost the care and the situation with orphanages and foster homes in the country as well as improve further conditions for orphans it is seen as a sort of retaliate a measure towards this so-called magnitsky act which was adopted in the united states just a couple of weeks ago. which entails a list of russian officials whom the united states believed to be involved in the case simply magnitsky and now the act itself. puts a severe restrictions on the travel and freezes financial assets of the russian

officials in question now the case of sergei magnitsky. involved the russian lawyer who was arrested on tax evasion charges and died while in print for limiter confinement but again these two acts are seen as the latest developments in the diplomatic row which seems to not to get any better between russia and the united states despite the whole affair with the reset button. for russian studies in history professor steven cohen from new york and princeton university's says he's never been the under any illusions about russia u.s. relations. there's an old russian saying we're friends are also deeds a lot of people in moscow and in washington when they pass the magnitsky act and now the ban on adoption in moscow may have thought they were just talking showing off playing grandstanding politically as we say in america but these words have consequences they have that they feel all this new cold war atmosphere which is

enveloping the relationship between our two countries it's going to affect american relations with russia regarding afghanistan regarding missile defense regarding syria regarding iran these are very serious matters obama has continued the policy toward moscow begun by president clinton a democrat and continued by president bush a republican that policy is investing nato toward russia's borders building missile defense on russia's borders interfering in russia's internal politics most recently the street demonstrations this is the same policy that began twenty years ago with the soviet union. well more world news on the way including iran the rolling out the big guns in the persian gulf iran undertakes a massive navy drills in the strategic strait of hormuz to show the world what it's got if trouble comes calling. more from aarti recalled today europe's money merry go round with sort of big bailouts which cuts countries on the edge

that's all ahead. egypt's president merci has made an attempt to ease political tensions in the country calling on the opposition to engage in dialogue but his offer was met with skepticism since it came shortly after the launch of an investigation into his three top opponents the chief prosecutor is citing allegations that opposition leaders nobel prize winner ahmed al baradei incited their supporters to topple mercy this week it was announced the divisive new constitution was approved over sixty percent objections and a two stage best friend of the opposition claims it is in this draft a document in sean's shari'a law only got a yes vote because of fraud on the or clark or world affairs contributor for britain's guardian newspaper explain to us why merci doesn't feel secure even after winning the referendum. i think he wants to sort of deflect attention from the

economy because the underlying problem plate the biggest we're facing is the economic crisis one of four egyptians are without jobs poverty on the right and the subsidies on fuel which means that the prices of gas and city are going to rocket and so this is a kind of a sort of smokescreen and he was very keen to get the opposition tied up in the legal challenges to sort of stop them from focusing on opposing him on the issues where he's very weak and i think also he be worried that you know a sizable minority thirty six over thirty six percent of people voted against the constitution and the fact seems to be that that history is on the way. and i think the obvious. you know i think because she's more protests in a year. now gun sales in the u.s. have rocketed after president obama pledged to ban certain types of automatic weapons in the wake of the sandy hook massacre that is going to chicken on the panic buying public getting armed while they still current. about two weeks ago

actually on this particular wall here. we are it's four rows down four rows across . with everything going on in politics right now with the possible ban and everything everyone is flooding in. purchasing right away gun stores all across the u.s. are reporting record sales just two weeks after the tragic shooting at the elementary school in newtown americans are scrambling to buy the same type of weapon that adam lanza used in the connecticut shooting plus high capacity magazines and a lot of them panic buying trigger it out of fear that the white house is out to ban the weapons but this time the words need to lead to action no a r fifteen for this customer all sold out at the store while prices on line have gone through the roof been going for a thousand and fifty eight hundred eight hundred dollars to twenty five hundred three thousand dollars even in some cases it's just the most amazing gun buying

spree i've ever seen so many gun retailers now quite cynically refer to thieve ministrations ben talk as the obama gun stimulants that's how good it's been for their business so how do you go from a president with a tough gun control agenda to someone gun dealers call the greatest gun salesman in america manufacturers of semi-automatic rifles report that their market has grown thirty percent over the last four years states like north carolina iowa you have seen a one hundred percent increase in gun sales over the same period in the wake of the tragedy in newtown one of the country's biggest ammunition suppliers said they sold more than three years worth of magazines in just three days although president obama himself has so far failed to act on his pledge to ban assault weapons his words have certainly provoked action just not the type you may have wanted or someone they say is against firearms. doing

a great job for us. maybe they should be a third term in order to sell even more weapons many dealers hype up gone apocalypse scenario for the band their government over. the stock. started. but many of them don't actually see any drastic changes happening anytime soon after all any significant gun control measures adopted in the past ultimately clashed with the second amendment of the constitution and were subsequently scrapped. tilley were genia i'm going to check out. for some american communities a gun violence is part of everyday life i will see it in thirty pm g m t it's often down to the colors being worn which decide who becomes a victim. what

do you see when you look at the scroll perhaps you wonder what bright future she'll have or maybe feel sympathy for her because you see she's in a wheelchair but if you're t.s.a. agent then you see hard core terrorist skull finding a small amount of residue from explosives on the girl's hands she was detained for almost an hour and her tears for mercy did not move the inspectors to allow her mother to be with her as they took her away for further inspection sadly the t.s.a. agents couldn't put two and two together and realize that people in wheelchairs get all sorts of random stuff on their hands because the wheels they push roll along the ground when will these endless tales of bizarre instance of the t.s.a. stop when will they stop worrying about girls in wheelchairs when will they stop searching under a terminally ill woman's bandages and when will they actually catch a terrorist when you kill security feels a lot more like ridiculous tyranny to me but that's just my opinion.

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now we have a development to bring you on the deadly plane crash the number of dead. or wounded female flight attendant died in hospital we bring you more on that story as we get it. the end of the year in iran is being marked by massive naval drills held in the strait of hormuz one of the world's busiest oil shipping routes warships submarines and jet fighters are taking part to the aim of proving tehran is well equipped to defend its maritime borders the maneuvers come as the west builds up pressure over iran's nuclear program planning on sanctions against the country tehran warned a few months ago that it could block the strait but its naval commanders say that's

not on the agenda now professor side mohammad marandi from tehran university explained why the iranians don't think there's a danger of a military confrontation in the future. in the sense that western countries are brutal and civilized enough to carry out an attack i think that that's clear to run into the fact that western countries are imposing sanctions on an embargo and on iran they are trying to prevent iran from even importing and exporting medicine and food stuff by blocking the central bank and there are shortages of some medicines right now in iran and people have died so the fact that western countries are willing to kill ordinary people and to make people suffer i think makes it clear that the idea of carrying out an attack on iran is something that they would contemplate if they could but i think on the other hand the iranians believe that western countries are much weaker today than they ever were before the defeat in iraq and afghanistan the setbacks in. that israel had in lebanon in gaza make

as well the economic crisis in europe and north america make it highly unlikely but the iranians have prepared themselves and i think that it has been a to turn to war so they i think in general the iranians feel that a military assault on iran aggression would be highly unlikely. russia says the refusal of syria's opposition coalition to talk with the government only paves the way for further. bloodshed at a meeting in moscow both foreign minister sergey lavrov and international peace envoy that xeni said that dialogue is the only way to resolve the conflict of rivals have reiterated that although russia condemns the methods used by the syrian army in the war it will take no part in regime change who has his response to the leader of syria's key rebel group who demanded moscow apologizes for he described as so. pretty much to spend i understand that mr had tb is

probably not very experienced in politics if he's looking to be a serious politician it is in his interest to hear our position from us and not from the media that sometimes distorts information so i'll repeat we're ready to talk to all opposition forces but we start from the premise that they should not only think about their own ambitions but also the fate of the syrian people and if they think that russia could play a role in the country's tragedy they should meet our representatives without preconditions or short notice but at this hour you can watch sergei lavrov exclusive interview with r.t. where he explains russia's view on the world's big issues right now. but it's not only greece or spain trying to stay afloat during times of punishing austerity the u.k. is also wrestling with deep cuts and a controversial budget which is being felt particularly hard in northeast england as their first discovered people in the region feel they're being left to suffer

alone and factory closures and rising unemployment. as he'll saying impressing gays it's grim up north it's a perception of life in some of the nation's other major cities recessions hit the case hard it's been in the northeast where it's being felt particularly acutely trade union leader val scott furious with the government's decision to close sunderland's rempel a factory it's a government venture that began back in the 1940's to provide employment the people with disabilities two weeks before christmas the government going to close the packaging factories and leaves a very bleak future for disabled workers cannot stops was laid off from another rempel a factory back in april and accuses the government of forcing people out of paid jobs and on to a life of welfare we were told in the week before we left three. jobs

. in fact just four people from his old factory found a job it's not the first time the northern workers have felt the firm hand of a conservative government back in the one nine hundred eighty s. and the miners' strike under margaret thatcher became a symbol of a divided nation this mining village in the living museum in the north east gives us a snapshot of the past three decades since margaret thatcher and her conservative government crushed the miners' unions the impact that her policies had on the north east was extreme and long felt and even today there are many. will have a deep mistrust of the conservative government the conservatives reputation up here is one that's hard to shake and it makes it hard for them to get a fair hearing on any plans to regenerate to find out more we decided it was time

to pay a visit to number ten i was shocked. on the conservative base. people who live in. the northeast. they don't come from the areas they don't really visit the areas very often and i think they have a completely different view of how people's lives are but government accused of not understanding the north but isn't that your job to represent the things to be a fair bit of bickering that goes on most northern and. well i mean having an accent in the house of commons you know i've got quite happy about having the ducks and but that sort of you get sneers when you have an accent when you speak in the commons from the government benches so that in itself is just an example of how the mismatch between the two sides of the government insists it's treating grace in the area seriously and his remarks money infrastructure projects targeting the northeast in particular but a legacy of letdowns has left many northerners less than in the east what we're

saying is the government this is going to happen this is not. it's a complete shambles so all in it together all the nation divided one thing seems that with many predicting an increase in unemployment and a triple dip recession for the way the challenges of the year ahead looks set to be testing times for everyone so r.t. sunderland. for another turbulent year wraps up for the debt you with painful austerity still being forced on people in several countries that frustration has turned to violence on a few occasions citizens get increasingly angry at paying the price for the blunders of their governments and banks when asked how are today's news teams remember europe's year of money misery.

it came to the point where if you walked into the studio you knew there was going to be a story about europe and austerity and protests and riots whether it would be spain or greece or even the u.k. and these were real people in real situations in very scary situations and our correspondents were out there in the midst of it all. so we. stood over some type of square and i just see the camera man behind the camera everybody else around me putting just months on as i did to you for must be for your life before i can say anything you get that horrible taste in your mouth and of course it's the tear gas that's become so synonymous with these demonstrations in greece along with the firing of molotov cocktails and clashes with the place the

producers like to see their correspondents in the middle of a crowd which is great but then the crowd is shouting the correspondents try to speak out everyone's very loud you can't hear anything that makes for good television. it's an incredible event covering it is pretty exciting you've got political elements you use the elements and you on the court force you've got the tragic stories of people who are driven to desperation pushed onto the streets to protest what they see is their livelihood to be chopped the way over to pay back this most of. all people to think it's about spain's crippling unemployment figures especially amongst the young about the cost to the states who said this is and then you really get a sense of just how angry and how desperate. they get the full of love that's doing to the country and to us it's not in the middle of one of these big protest movements when the cost is breakout. well there is financial frustration across the atlantic too as the u.s.

edges closer to the fiscal cliff the deadline for a deal is really a day away as democrats and republicans heigl overtax hikes and spending cuts all that to come. rain that gives some ground to the opposition slashing the sentences for some of the jailed activists becoming pain is called for their release we trace the roots of the on the rest. of. the sun rises over what seems like enlist forest here in the new directions cry for hundred kilometers north of life while stalk as in much of the world it's disappearing at a catastrophic great. markers both illegal and those finding ways to outsmart the system for filing down the forests of the put more region for them profit goes well beyond the future of our planet and the result could be an

ecological crisis we are on the hunt for illegal loggers and it's not going to be easy the forest is enormous and our chances are slim now for now we can stay in our dreams but as soon as we find solid tracks we'll have to drop our wheels and get out silently in order not to scare the loggers off the xander someone in ca has been a ranger for over twenty five years he can spend weeks at a time tracking a single group of loggers easier to work when snow falls in autumn it's impossible to find human tracks and even transport tracks are hard to see after hours of driving we get sent in the right direction by word of mouth you can see that the ground is soft here which means that there are twelve tractor trails are very fresh which in fact means that we need to be quiet in order to not scare them off as we get closer. this team says they're legal but have no documents now xander can now call the police to take.